Personal Wine Cellar — Privacy Policy

Last updated: June 19, 2026

Personal Wine Cellar is an iOS app for personal wine cellar tracking. This policy explains what data the app handles, where it lives, and who else might see it. The short version: Personal Wine Cellar collects nothing from you and has no servers of its own. Your data stays on your device unless you back it up, use an optional AI feature, or turn on Family Sharing (which syncs through your own iCloud). The longer version follows.

Data we collect

Nothing. Personal Wine Cellar has no account system, no servers, no analytics, no telemetry, no tracking. The only network calls it makes are to the AI provider you choose (if you enable AI features) and to Apple's iCloud (if you enable Family Sharing). Both are described below.

Data you create and store

Everything you enter into Personal Wine Cellar — bottles, tasting notes, log entries, photos, ratings, prices — is stored locally on your device using Apple's SwiftData framework. It does not leave your device unless you explicitly choose to:

• Back it up (Settings → Data → Backup & Restore → Export). Generates a JSON file that you can save to Files, iCloud Drive, email, or AirDrop. You control where it goes.
• Use an AI feature (see Third-party AI providers below).
• Turn on Family Sharing (see iCloud and Family Sharing below).

If you uninstall Personal Wine Cellar, all your locally stored data is removed. We recommend exporting a backup before uninstalling.

iCloud and Family Sharing

Personal Wine Cellar can optionally share your cellar with family members. This feature is off by default and only activates when you invite someone from Settings → Family Sharing.

When you enable Family Sharing:

• Your cellar (bottles, quantities, and opened-log entries) is stored in your own iCloud account using Apple's CloudKit, and shared with the family members you invite.
• The people you invite can see and use that shared cellar on their own devices. They can browse the cellar, mark bottles opened, and add more of wines already present; only you (the owner) can add new wines, edit details, or delete.
• This data is handled by Apple under Apple's iCloud terms and privacy policy. The developer of Personal Wine Cellar runs no server and has no access to your iCloud data.
• You can stop sharing at any time from Settings → Family Sharing, and invited members can leave a shared cellar from their own device.

If you never turn on Family Sharing, the app uploads none of your cellar data to iCloud, and it stays on your device as described above. See Apple iCloud Privacy.

Third-party AI providers

Several optional features call a third-party AI provider that you choose and authenticate yourself:

• Anthropic Claude — Used if you set your provider to "Anthropic Claude" in Settings and paste an API key from console.anthropic.com. When invoked, the app sends: the captured label image and a text prompt (for label identification); the barcode digits (for barcode lookup); text about the wine and a brief summary of your cellar (for shopping advice, tasting notes, market value, pairing hints, and the AI second opinion).
• Google Gemini — Used if you set your provider to "Google Gemini" in Settings and paste an API key from aistudio.google.com. The same data shapes are sent as with Claude.

Each provider has its own privacy policy. We send data directly to that provider's API endpoint; Personal Wine Cellar does not proxy or log it:

• Anthropic Privacy Policy
• Google AI / Gemini Privacy Policy

You can disable AI features at any time by setting Provider to "Off (rules only)" in Settings. The Pairing engine works fully offline without any AI.

Your API keys

Your AI provider API keys are stored locally on your device using Apple's @AppStorage (which writes to UserDefaults). They are not transmitted to Personal Wine Cellar's developer (there is no server). They are sent only to the AI provider's API when you invoke an AI feature.

We do not see your keys, store them, or have any way to recover them. If you lose them, you can generate new ones in your AI provider's console.

Camera and photos

Personal Wine Cellar accesses the camera (via Apple's VisionKit) when you open the Scan tab or tap a camera button in the Add Bottle form. The camera is used to scan barcodes and to capture still photos of wine labels. Captured photos are stored locally on your bottle entries. They are sent to your selected AI provider only when you use a feature that requires it (label identification).

You can revoke camera access at any time in iOS Settings → Privacy & Security → Camera → Personal Wine Cellar.

You can also pick label photos from your Photos library via the iOS PhotosPicker. Personal Wine Cellar receives only the photos you explicitly select; it has no access to your broader library.

Children's privacy

Personal Wine Cellar is a wine inventory app intended for adults. It does not knowingly collect any data from children under 13.

Changes to this policy

If we change this policy, we'll update the "Last updated" date at the top. Material changes will be flagged in app release notes.

Contact

For privacy questions, contact:

• Developer: Sanu Chacko
• Email: [email protected]
• Repo: github.com/sanukc/WineCellar